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Here are the "20 Top Urban Planning Successes of All Time" (H/T OnStreetLevel ). One can quibble with almost every word in the t...

Over at Econlog, Bryan Caplan asked "Does the U.S. Government Increase or Decrease Income Inequality" . Last I looked, there were...

Brazil is apparently doing quite well. I wanted to compare to the basket cases and the folks at the Economist Intelligence Unit let me lo...

We are all taught that trust is hard to gain and easy to squander. So it is with credibility. We all know the liar who has to keep inventi...

Here is a NY Times columnist writing about "The Angry Rich". I suppose that most of them do not want to pay their "fair...

The Economist (Sep. 18, 2010) has this interesting piece re Chinese cities which includes this sub-head: "Policymakers should embrace...

Matt Kahn's Climatopolis is a good read. It acknowledges that doomsters are usually wrong because they don't understand market forc...

Ken Orski's latest Innovation News Brief (Sep 8, 2010) discusses the recent Obama $50 billion "Plan to Renew and Expand America...

Heat exchange is a wonderful thing, often seen as a windfall by engineers. In this story on a Paris Metro station, we see that the heat ge...

David Brooks wrote about "The Genteel Nation" and "gentility shift" last Friday. He was addressing long-term labor mar...

I could not pass this up. Here is the punchline: Report: Investing in Transit Could Create 180,000 Jobs, for Free by Noah Kazis on Sept...

Whenever poor public school performance is highlighted, there is a chorus that brings up funding shortfalls as the explanation. But there i...

The NY Times Magazine featured "What Is It About 20-Somethings?" about two weeks ago. Getting started is never simple. But not ...

Having a graphologist analyze my handwriting was not pleasant. Who likes to be that exposed? I got a similar feeling reading The Economis...

In this morning's WSJ , columnist David Wessel wonders ( "Parsing Ascendant GOP's Economic Prescriptions" ) what Republica...

It's great to be included on this list of 50 Top Civil Engineering Blogs.

Human settlement densities get a lot of attention for two reasons. First, the data are usually easy to get; we know the areas and the popu...

Dan Neil writes about the new all-electric Nissan Leaf in today's WSJ and gives it a thumbs-up. He mentions the 100-mile range and ...

The Nazi death camps of Europe are, for the most part, preserved and visited. The same cannot be said for the gulag. The Aug. 30 New Yorke...

It often takes a policy to fix the consequences of the last policy. In polite company, it's called "the law of unintended conseque...